NH: Vid of my latest open carry incident

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[Dada Orwell]

Below is a video of my August 5 open carry incident in New Hampshire. It starts audio-only then the video picks up a minute or two later when our pro photographer runs to the scene.

Basically I'm a liberty activist here; I wear a holstered pistol in public roughly once a week. It's legal in New Hampshire but not that common south of the notches. Cops sometimes ignore, sometimes harass you for doing it. When that happens to me, I don't get angry but use the chance to educate police about the open carry rights of NH citizens.

I was walking 50 yards from my car to the monthly Free Stater meeting at Murphy's Taproom in downtown Manchester. I usually open carry to that meeting.

I was noticed by a state trooper, but I noticed him too and called the Free Staters' emergency hotline before he got to me. In the video you hear my call realtime, as I report my situation and try to explain to our listeners what's happening.

Folks inside the bar also came running out to support me. Police thought it was pre-planned it happened so fast, like they'd been set up or something. But this is just how our guys react when they're nearby. I appreciate the fact that the police were able to maintain calm and respectful demeanor despite some of the anger directed against them by the crowd. But of course look I forward to the day when they don't make such stops in the first place.

Note that I am able to lawfully refuse them when they ask for my "papers" and personal information. If you think this is a better outcome than you'd get where you are now.....move your ass up here and share our freedoms!

Visit www.FreeStateProject.org

Thanks to all who showed support during and after this incident.

Hopefully this video will remind people New Hampshire does allow open carry, that officers here do handle themselves better than in most states, and that the Free Staters are continuing to improve level of support which is available to freedom lovers when police take exception to their responsible exercise of rights.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FWXnK5UyRI&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fnewhampshireunderground%2Ecom%2Fforum%2Findex%2Ephp%3Ftopic%3D10019%2E45

[Copernicus]

In a democracy, people lose their liberties when they irritate people or scare them.

Fortunately, we do not live in a Democracy, we live in a Representative Constitutional Republic which guarantees inalienable rights and protects against tyrannical usurpations-the cornerstone bulwark against such usurpations being the right of the people to keep and bear arms.

You will recall the definition of Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on the character of the evening meal.

The choice of the lamb, of course, would be to graze on the freely available praire grass,while the choice of the wolves is possibly a more compact and readily available form of protein based sustanance euphemistically referred to as tenderloin.

Such tyrannical Democratic government should not be tolerated among civilized people.

I eagerly await your YouTube video which will demonstrate the proper,elegant way to defend the right of the people to keep and bear arms

Best regards,

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Great stuff!

[xsrdx]

I suggest that you leave it be, and announce that you are armed, where it is, and that you have a permit.

Certainly in VA and TX, direction from LE is leave the gun alone and show the permit.

Handling the firearm is expressly discouraged, for the reasons you cite.

[Scotsman will be Free]

Police chiefs will be pro or anti whatever the mayor, governor or other appointing authority is. They serve at their pleasure, and are usually gutless whores.
The attitudes amongst the cops that do the police work vary. As the police forces get younger(compared to me), less are inclined to support citizens packing due to the brainwashing they have been receiving from the public schools, TV, etc.
Most cops of my generation had no problems with honest citizens packing. We chewed butts on occasion(citizen grabbing handgun out of glovebox to get to registration, for example)but most of my peers had no problems.

[mvpel]

Perhaps it was a poor analogy. I was simply trying to compare it to some other form of rubbing other peoples’ faces in your right.

I think a better analogy would be the example of "Preacher Mike" - an evangelical Christian minister who, every weekday, exercised his freedom of speech by standing on a soapbox in the University of Michigan Diag and preaching his heart out to the passing student body, and debating with any Marx-soaked pseudo-intellectual philosophy major who dared to engage him.

He harmed no one, irritated others, and saved a few, and the police and campus officials couldn't do squat to silence him even though I'm sure many wanted to.

[M Kehoe]

Ref 163, and 164. Especially post 164. Good point. In Florida the LEO's expect us to be armed (493,000 CCW). Even though, your's is good advice.

5.56mm

[Scotsman will be Free]

In the state of Washington a state patrol sergeant and a trooper ended up arresting a guy who was audio recording them during a stop. It went to federal court, and they rightfully lost. I knew both of those officers, and liked them, but they were out to lunch.
When I worked, record away. Just don’t shove it in my face, interfere with my duties or invade my crime scene.

[tiger-one]

Recording works both ways...link the dash cams.

[Copernicus]

Recording works both ways...link the dash cams.

Works for me. Every patrol car on the planet should have a dashcam with every on-scene car pointed toward the incident for as many camera angles as possible.

Best regards,